Coordinating Road Projects
Benefits of Project Coordination
- In Oregon, corridor-level transportation management plans ensure that at least one major north-south corridor and one major east-west corridor are left unrestricted for freight and passenger travel at all times.
- San Francisco was able to reduce street cuts by 27 percent by coordinating ROW projects.
Work Zone Project Coordination minimizes the impact of highway work zones on traffic safety and mobility by employing proactive planning, active monitoring, and flexible scheduling to minimize public exposure to work zones and work zone-related congestion.
Project Coordination is an innovation promoted through FHWA's Every Day Counts (EDC) Smarter Work Zones initiative.
Cities and regions around the country are recognizing benefits from coordinating projects between transportation agencies, utilities, and other agencies that may need to do construction in the public right-of-way. These benefits include significant cost savings, earlier identification of project impacts and greater ability to reduce and manage traffic disruptions from road work, and better quality road surfaces. Better coordination of projects can be "win-win" for public agencies, road users, and citizens by reducing the need for additional work zones.
Project coordination can be accomplished using different methods and scopes. Coordination may be done within a single urban area, across a corridor, for a whole State, or across a region that includes neighboring States or even countries. Coordination methods include establishing a formal organization that spearheads coordination across a geographic area; using software or mapping to organize project data entered by various agencies so schedules can be coordinated; having coordination meetings to discuss next season's projects or upcoming lane closures; or jointly establishing performance goals for a corridor and working together to monitor and meet them.
Project Coordination Resources
Guide to Project Coordination for Minimizing Work Zone Mobility Impacts
Publication No. FHWA-HOP-16-013
April 2016
The Guide to Project Coordination for Minimizing Work Zone Mobility Impacts provides an overview of work zone Project Coordination (PC) to minimize work zone impacts and produce time and achieve cost savings. This Guide presents key concepts of PC, examples of useful tools to facilitate PC, and case studies of how PC was used to improve agency management of complex construction programs.
Webinar on Work Zone Project Coordination - Held on September 24, 2012
- Recording
- Transcript (HTML, PDF 101KB)
- Great Lakes Regional Transportation Operations Coalition Presentation, by Bobbi Welke, Michigan DOT and Peter Rafferty, University of Wisconsin Madison (HTML, PDF 3.3MB)
- New York City Presentation, by John Speroni, New York City DOT (HTML, PDF 650KB)
- Oregon Presentation, by Tony Coleman, Oregon DOT (HTML, PDF 4.6MB)
